Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a request to facilitate communications between first and second processing nodes, determining that the communications are to be established via quantum teleportation between, and identifying a network path comprising a first path segment to obtain a quantum channel, wherein quantum entanglement is established between the first and second processing nodes based on transportation of a first quantum entangled object via the quantum channel. A classical communication channel is facilitated between the first and second processing nodes, adapted to exchange between the nodes, quantum state information of a measurement performed upon the first quantum entangled object. Information is exchanged between the first and second processing nodes via the quantum channel according to the transported first quantum entangled object and the exchanged quantum state information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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4. The system of claim 3, wherein the signaling information is provided to the configurable switch via a control channel.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the control channel is physically separate from the quantum channel.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the first pair of quantum entangled photons comprises a first pair of quantum entangled photons, and wherein the quantum channel comprises a fiber optic communications channel.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the control channel comprises a powerline communication channel.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network routing path of the plurality of network routing paths comprises a quantum repeater, the quantum repeater extending entanglement between the first communication node and the second communication node according to a second pair of quantum entangled photons.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the first network routing path comprises a quantum repeater the quantum repeater, quantum entanglement being further established between the first communication node and the quantum repeater based on entanglement swapping based on the second pair of quantum entangled photons at the quantum repeater, wherein the exchange of information occurs between the first communication node and the second communication node via the quantum channel according to the transported first quantum entangled photon of the first pair of quantum entangled photons and according to the entanglement swapping based on the second pair of quantum entangled photons.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the signaling information is provided to the configurable switch via a control channel.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the network path of the plurality of network paths comprises a quantum repeater, the quantum repeater extending entanglement between the first communication node and the second communication node according to a second group of quantum entangled objects.
18. The system of claim 8, wherein the first pair of quantum entangled photons and the second pair of quantum entangled photons originate from the quantum source.
19. The method of claim 11, wherein the first quantum entangled object and the second quantum entangled object are generated by the quantum source.
20. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the group of quantum entangled object are provided by the quantum source.
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